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The IRS released a report containing statistics on cases handled by both the Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement Program and the Treaty Assistance and Interpretation Team. The cases discussed in the report are requests for relief from double taxation. The report indicates that the US Competent Authority resolved 193 double-tax cases in 2015, a 45% increase from the 133 cases resolved in 2014. The number of pending cases also increased from 718 in 2014 to 755 in 2015.